Safety-razor.



E. I. YOUNG.

SAFETY RAZOR.

APPLICATION FILED 001'. 20, 1009.

Patented Oct. 25,1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. esswamesmsmmea mam-ma at meat. Patented Ocfi. 1910.

Application fled October 80, Berta! Io. 588,556.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I Emma I. YOUNG, a citizen of the United 'States, residing at g fontclair, county of Essex, and State of ew useful Improvements in Safety-Razors, of which the follow is a specification.

My invention i efiites to improvements in safety razors.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a safety razor in which the bladeolding means can be quickly and positively adjusted so that the cuttin edge of the blade may lie obli uely to t e direction of movement of the b ade to give ashearing cut.

Another object is to provide a safety razor in which the handle can be rotated and posi tiv ely ad'usted at any angle to the cutting ed of t e blade.

other object is to provide a safety razor in which the blade can be quickly removed or re laced.

0 er objects and advantages will be apparent from the detailed description to 0 One form of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming a part of the specification, in which,

Figure 1 is a front view of the same. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fi 3 is a back view. Fig. 4 is an enlarged bac view of the clampingplate. Fig. 5 is an enlar d front view of the bedlate with the bla e in situ. Fi 6 is an en arged sectional view of the hea of the razor taken on line XX of Fi 3, looking in the direction of the arrows. %ig. 7 is an enlarged view of the inner flattened end of the handle showing the two lugs or pins to engage the rack on the clampingate. p Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referrindg to the drawings, the bed-plate 1 is provi ed at each end with flanges 2, 2, and at each lower corner with upturned flan 0r shoulders 3, 3, to receive a blade 4. ese flan es or shoulders 3, 3, are preferably forme by punching up the metal of the bed-plate 1 and are adapted to receive the lower ed a stop and ar for each corner of the blade. This lade is adapted to be held in place by a clamping-plate 5, the edges of which are arranged to be engaged by the Jersey, have invented certain'new and secured togetherv by the screw 22.

of the blade 4, formingv shaped clamping-plate 6 is provided with a pro ection or gortion 6 curving rearwardly and downwar lyuntil it-is substantially parallel with the inner faceor-bodyvportion flanges 2, 2 of the bed-plate 1.. The U- a plurality of depressions 9, 9. These de-F-GE pressions 9, 9 are preferably formed by punching up the metal of the ro'ection or part 6. The inner end 11 of t e andle 10 1s flattened and extends at an an 1e to the remainder of the handle, and is a apted to enga the pro gection or part 6 of the clamping-p ate 5. his end 11 is provided with a non-threaded central hole 12, and a plurality of pins or projections 13 13 arranged to engage. the depressions 9, 5 o the rack 8. These pins or pro'ections 13, 13 are likewise preferabl forme by punching up the metal of the en 11.

In the preferred form of my invention, the handle is formed in two sections 20, 21, Means the end 11 of the are (plrovided for holdin han 10 in pivotal an frictional engagement with the projection or part 6 o t e clamping-plate 5, and also the several, parts of the devlce'in operative relation with each other, said means being at a fixed angle to the blade. In the form of my invention, as shown, such means are arranged perpendicularly' to the blade, a d consists of the thumb-nut 14 havinga sc w-threaded stem 15, which is adapted to ass throu h the hole 12 and engage the t readed ho e 7 in the projection or part 6. Surrounding the screw-threaded stem 15 and secured to the nut 14 is the spring 16 adapted to lie in the annular groove 17 in the mner face of the thumb-nut 14, whereby the end 11 is held in yielding en agement with the projection or art 6 of tEe clamping-plate. The stem 15 1s also arranged to ress the bed-plate 1 'ingflthe bed-plate is provided with a guard of a rearwardl curved extension 18 in with said -plate and 1:32? a pl 'ty of holes 19 therein. If d however other forms of ards may be The'parts when assembled are in operative relation to each other, as shown in the dra -When it is desired to remove the e for'cle'aning, renewing or other p the nut 14 is loosened sufliciently to 0w the bedlate 1 and the blade 4 to be removed toge er without dis-assembling the other parts. To reinsert the blade, it is placed s111 pr;dth&bed-pl:ll;e 1 and theylare er 1 tween ecam in -p ate fiiid the eiid of the stem 15. The slumbnut 14 is then tightened sufliciently to enage the bed-plate 1 to hold the same and blade 4 firmly against the clamping-plate 5. During the forigoing operations, the sprin 16 maintains e inner end 11 of the hand e 10 in yielding enga ment with the gil'lojection or part 6 of the c amping-plate 5. e handle 10, being in ivotal and frictional engagement with, t e projection or part 6 of the clamping-plate, may be swung to any desired position so that the handle' may assume any a le with relation to the cutting ed? of the lade. The pins 13, 13 t e rack 8 form co-acting means for maintaining the handle in the position to which it is moved.

As will ap r from the foregoing, the handle may g revolved bodily about the stem 15 as an axis through an arc of 360,

or more, and held in positive adjustment at any desired angle to its normal-position (as shown in Fig. 3) b the pins 13, 13 enga ing the rack 8. The handle will thus rivo ve about an axis at an angle to and lying outside of said handle.

While I have shown and described one s ific form of m invention, it will be 0 vious to those ed in the art that various changes, modifications, alterations and substitutions may be made therein, without departing from the spirit or scope of my invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a safety razor, the combination with blade holding devices, of a handle oblique thereto, means securing the handle to said devices and permitting it to rotate about an axis other than its own while yieldingly resisting such movement, a blade in the plane of said holding devices, and means rigidly securing the b ade to the holding devices and permitting rotation of the handle; where y the blade and holding devices readlatter to rotate in its own plane, an means for locki it at any deslred point in its rotarynpat 3. a safety razor, the combination with a handle, of a guarded blade oblique to the axis of the handle and mounted u n the latter to rotate in its own plane while held against other displacement, and means for yieldingly holding it in any desired adjustment 9. ut its axis of rotation.

4. In a safety-razor, the combination with blade-holding means, of a blade, a guard, a handle and means for yieldingly and ositively securing the handle to said b adeholding means and arranged to revolve bodily through substantially a complete revolution about an axis lying outside of said handle. 5. In a safety-razor, the combination with blade-holding means of a blade, a ard, a handle and means for yieldingly an ositively securing the handle to said b adeholdlng means at an angle to an axis which is substantially perpen icular to the plane of the blade, said handle being arranged to revolve bodily through substantially a complete revolution about said axis. I

6. In a safety-razor, the combination with blade-holding means, of a blade, a nerd, a handle, means for ivotally securlng said handle to said bla e-holding means, said handle being arranged to revolve bodily through a complete revolution about the axis of said ivotal means said axis lying outside the sald handle, and means for positively and yieldingly holding said handle in an desired position about said axis.

a safety-razor, the combination with blade-holding means, of a blade, a ard, a handle, means for revolubly securing said 110 handle to said blade-holding means, the axis of said securing means being perpendicular to said blade and outside of said handle, and means for retaining said handle at any desired position during its adjustment.

8. In a safety-razor, the combination with blade-holding means, of a ard, a handle secured to said blade-holding means and revoluble about an axisother than its own, and co-acting means carried by said blade- 120 holding means and said handle for retaining sald handle at any desired position during its adjustment.

9. In a safetmizor, the combination with a handle, of a dles axis, a blade, and a s le thumbscrew clamping the blade immovab y and the handle rotatably to the bedplate.

10. In a safety-razor, the combination with a blade, of a guard for said blade,

plate. oblique to the han- 125.

.liminarg blade-holdi means a' handle, and means at right a es to said blade for maintaining said hand e in pivotal relation with sai blade-holding means, the axis of said handle being arranged at a fixed angle with the axis of said pivotal means.

11. In a safety-razor, the combination with a blade, of a guard for said blade, a bed-plate a clampinglate between-which and the bed-plate the ilade is clamped, a handle, and means at ri ht an les to said blade for maintaining sai hand e in pivotal engagement with said clamping-plate, the axis of said handle being arran d at a fixed angle with the axis of sai pivotal means. 7

12. In a safety-razor, the combination with a bed-plate, of a guard, a clamping- 1 plate having a projection substantially parallel with said clam ing-plate, a plurality of depressions in sai pro ection to form a rack, a handle oblique to the plane of the bed plate and rotatably and ad ustably secured to said rojection, and means carried by said handle to engage said rack.

13. In a safet razor, the combination with a handle, 0 a arded blade oblique to the axis of the ban 1e and secured thereto by devices allowing it to rotate in its own p ane when rotar force exceeds a predetermined limit; w ereby the. osition of the cutting ed e with respect to t e angle made with the andles axis may, without premanipulation of any part,bevaried at will y rotating the blade in its own plane.

14, In a safety-razor, the combination with a clamping-plate, of a handle rotatably secured at a fixed oblique angle thereto, one of said parts being provided with a rack and the other having a cooperating projection or projections to engage said rack and a guard.

15. In a safety razor, the combination with a bed plate rovided with a guard, of a blade, a hand 0, a U-sha ed clamping late havin a portion exten ing over said d late t e other part being adjacent to the andle, and a thumb-screw passing through said handle and part, in threade engagement with the latter, free from the former and pressing against said bed plate.

16. In a safety-razor, the combination with 'abed-plate, of a guard, a clampinglate between which and said bed-plate a Blade-is held, said clamping-plate having a projection rovided with an interiorly threaded hoe, a plurality of depressions surrounding said hole to form a rack, a handle, one end of which is flattened and provided with an opening therein, a pin carried by said end of the handle to engage said rack, a thumb-nut having a threaded stem to pass throu h said openin gage said hole, an arranged to old said blade between said clampinglate and said bed-plate, and a spring to ho d said handle in engagement with sald clamping-plate.

'In testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

.ELMER I. YOUNG.

Witnesses:

W. C. MARGEBON, D. HAROLD BUsH.

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